#Darmstadt

[germanpostwarmodern]

Studio of an Artist (1957) in Darmstadt, Germany, by Fritz Novotny. Photo by Paul Förster.

[intheruinsalways]

Can't really make a case for a book with just 10 quotes, can you? But I HATE it when love is not enough, when no one will show them mercy, no one will care. They can drag themselves through hell, but they can never walk the remaining steps towards each other, because the world won't let that happen. This one thing, the only thing they could ever want, is not meant for them. I hated every second of it, killed me to finish it, killed me when it did end.

But this was the only time when I smiled, when *they* smiled. Truly powerless, you know ;-)

Book- powerless series by lauren Roberts.

[roses-of-the-romanovs]

The Hessian siblings and the Romanov siblings in Darmstadt, 1910.

[dampfloks]

Feuriger Elias (Darmstadt)

[ykzzr]

Ernst Louis, Grand Duke of Hesse and by Rhine, his wife Victoria, Grand Duchess of Hesse and by Rhine and their daughter Princess Elisabeth of Hesse and by Rhine, his sisters and their children, Princess Victoria of Battenberg, her two daughters Princesses Alice and Louise, her son Prince George of Battenberg,Princess Irene of Prussia, her sons Princes Waldemar and Sigismund of Prussia, Grand Duchess Elizabeth Feodrovna. Wolfsgarten 1896.

[dogmalilith]

Illustration from the Darmstadt Haggadah showing Jewish men and women discussing the Exodus story, ca. 1430, Germany.

[saganshy62]

Louis IV, Grand Duke of Hesse with his daughters Elizabeth and Alix and son Ernest. St-Petersburg. 1888. by Tatiana Zakharova Via Flickr:

[faradaysketches]

Pigeons. Louisenplatz, Darmstadt, Hesse. October 2024 I waited to draw the birds at peak pigeon.

[postcard-from-the-past]

Street scene in Darmstadt, Hesse, Germany

German vintage postcard

[fascinatingeurope]

🇩🇪 📷 Darmstadt's Market Square (Marktplatz) around 1900 - a digitally enhanced scan of photochrom print. Darmstadt is a city in the German state of Hesse (Hessen).

[theknitpotato]

Waldspirale, Darmstadt, Germany. It has 1048 windows and no two are the same.

Designed by Austrian artist Friedensreich Hundertwasser

[germanpostwarmodern]

Ludwig-Georgs-Gymnasium (1953-55) in Darmstadt, Germany, by Max Taut

[grusik]

Graffiti 2021 in Darmstadt Darmstadt - Lincoln wall ============================================== Thank you all, for your views, faves and comments!!! ============================================== by pharoahsax

[stupidgirl2003]

The Old Mausoleum and Princess Elisabeth.

In the Grand Ducal Hessian family, the name Elisabeth evokes melancholic feelings; as the lives of the beholders of this beautiful name, which means 'God-given', the princesses Elisabeth, later Grand Duchess Elizaveta Feodorovna (1864-1918) and Elisabeth, Elizaveta Feodorovna's niece (1895-1903), were princesses whose lives and destinies were intermingled with happiness, devotion, service, and sadness. Today, remembering the beholders of this name, we can remember another Hessian princess named Elisabeth who, like Grand Duke Ernst Ludwig's daughter, also died in childhood. Being so young when she passed away, information about her is scarce. She was the fourth child and first daughter of the Hereditary Princely couple of Darmstadt, Ludwig and Wilhelmine, but the fact is that Elisabeth's parents had been leading separated lives for a while and, the age gap with her older brothers, Princes Ludwig and Karl, was of more than a decade. Therefore, that her biological father was not the Hereditary Prince does not come as a surprise, being the most probable biological father August von Senarclens-Grancy, a Swiss noble in service to the court. He was also the possible biological father of her younger siblings, Alexander and Marie, but, like her, they were also recognized by Ludwig. Wilhelmine's pregnancy with Elisabeth is mentioned in a letter from her sister, Russian Empress Elizaveta Alexeievna to her mother, Amalie of Hesse-Darmstadt: '...I am very sorry for my poor aunt in Darmstadt [Luise, Grand Duchess of Hesse and by the Rhine, mother-in-law of Wilhelmine], whose eyes are in such a bad state. Is she happy with Mimi's [Wilhelmine's nickname] pregnancy ? Dear mother, I don't think I have been secretive with you, but when Mimi told me that I was the first person she had spoken to about her pregnancy, I thought it was not for me to be the first to speak of it, but for her in every way. I still don't know how far along she is, she hasn't told me, but I'm sure you do, dear mother...' . Three months after this letter was written, on the 20 of May of 1821, Amalie Elisabeth Luise Caroline Friederike was born. Although not directly mentioned, she was possibly named in honor of her maternal grandmother and maternal aunts and her official paternal grandmother. She, as a child, possibly spent the majority of her time with nannies that took care of her, and with her mother Wilhelmine. Elisabeth has been referred to as her mother's favorite daughter. Her mother, who loved to travel to Switzerland and had visited it several times before, decided to take all her children in a travel there, but what was to be a happy event, was marked by tragedy, as Elisabeth, in the outward journey, contracted scarlet fever and died on May 27, 1826, in Lausanne, a week after her fifth birthday.

Little Elisabeth was laid to rest first in the Darmstadt City Church for some time until 1831, when the mausoleum her mother had asked court architect Georg Moller to erect in the Rosehöhe, a most loved place for her, was finished. This mausoleum with time became an important burial place for the Hessian Grand Ducal family.

As for Wilhelmine, with the death of Elisabeth, her love for Switzerland, traveling, and life in general decayed. She said some years later 'the old wanderlust is no longer to be found in me'.

Wilhelmine died in 1836, and asked her husband, now Grand Duke Ludwig II, to have a simple funeral and to be laid to rest with her beloved Elisabeth.

Sources: L'impératrice Élisabeth, épouse d'Alexandre 1er by Grand Duke Nikolai Mikhailovich, podcast 'Treffpunkt Heilingenberg' #3 'Eine Affäre in der Schweiz', Die Hessin auf dem Zarenthron: Maria, Kaiserin von Russland, http://www.park-rosenhoehe.info/Park_Geschichte.html and https://freunde-des-schlossmuseum-darmstadt.de/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/flyer_palais.pdf

Thanks to @abigaaal for her feedback on this!

[foreverinthepagesofhistoryy]

~ 🤍 Royal Parallels 🤍 ~

❧ Grand Duchesses Olga and Tatiana Nikolaevna of Russia look out of the same window at Wolgsgarten hunting lodge, Darmstadt, 4 years apart. 1899 vs 1903 ☙

[ykzzr]

Today is the 118th birthday of Georg Donatus.

he was the son of Grand Duke Ernst Ludwig and Princess Eleonore of Solms-Hohensolms-Lich. Georg married Princess Cecilie of Greece and Denmark, in 1931. They had three children: Ludwig, Alexander, and Johanna.

Georg Donatus and his family tragically died in an airplane crash in Belgium on November 16, 1937, while en route to London for the wedding of his brother, Prince Ludwig. The crash claimed the lives of Georg Donatus, Cecilie, their two young sons, and Cecilie’s unborn child.